Berri urges restraint

Claude Ghanem, the government commissioner at the Military Court, charged 13 people affiliated with Hezbollah in connection with the explosives-laden truck seized in Dahr al-Baidar. The charges include possessing explosives, undermining state security, and violating the decision reserving the possession of arms to the state. Hezbollah itself was not charged. A political source said the case would remain with the military judiciary until the investigation is complete and verdicts are issued, ruling out any immediate referral to the ordinary courts or the Judicial Council. The source added that President Joseph Aoun, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam support leaving the case to the courts and avoiding taking the dispute to the streets, while ministers aligned with the Lebanese Forces party are calling for it to be referred to the ordinary courts.

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